One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

Without passions you have no experience whatever.

Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.

Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.